The Office of Research and Development (ORD) aspires to discover knowledge, develop VA researchers and health care leaders, and create innovations that advance health care for our veterans and the nation.

The CCTS collaborated with members of the Office of the OVCR Quality Improvement Program to develop a set of standard case report forms. The forms should be useful for any investigator initiated clinical trials and can be customized to an individual study.

Investigators who need to translate language from your research protocol into lay language for an IRB submission may benefit from the University of Michigan’s "Simplification Guide to Medical Terms," which has suggestions for common medical terms that may need translation.